Atrahasis Epic

Note that besides myth per se, the Mesopotamian stories have characteristics of epic heroic tales, with their strong focus on the principal human character and on the catastrophic events of the flood. Cassuto 9 suggests that Atrahasis was a "kind of incantation for easing women's birth pains". 7 In this ...

126 126 K UNIT 2 Question for The Epic of Creation (Tablet VII) 27. List several important duties that Marduk has been given by the other gods. In other words, what duties or tasks does Marduk control or oversee?

Inside, you will learn that Atrahasis is the early Sumerian version of the later Hebrew tale of Noah and the Ark. You will see that several names of the characters in Atrahasis (and the Gilgamesh epic that we will read shortly) contain the early versions of more commonly known characters, such as Noah and ...

26 Atrahasis Epic: The Flood Story, 18thcenturyBCE Atrahasis Epic Three different Babylonian stories of the flood have survived: the Sumerian Flood Story, the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, and the Atrahasis Epic.

The flood story is similar to the Old Testament Noah story or the Greek story of Deucalion. 29 The Akkadian narrative is a product of a long-standing tradition, since it contains within it the plot line found in the Sumerian Eridu Genesis story and the Babylonian Epic of Creation . Atrahasis has been found ...

This copy is probably not the original composition, for the copyist tells us that he is a junior scribe. 3 The story had at least a thousand-year his-tory and we find tablets from a thousand years later that contain parts or all of this text, which we call the human Atrahasis epic , and they called, "When ...